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Regarding the subject of this thread:
An inquiry has been to the office of the Bowling Green mayor simply to determine if she had formally requested or accepted membership in the group.
There is increasing evidence that the MAIG group lists as members even those mayors who simply attended an MAIG event ... presumably as a way to boost the group's membership roster.
Rachel Parsons, who works at the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Va., said several other mayors across the country also have told her organization that they attended an MAIG event and were put on the membership roster although they never signed up to join.
Regarding the posting of "no carry" signs:
We know that licensed non-LEO civilians may engage in licensed concealed carry except in the following places (
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/KRS/237-00/110.PDF):
(a) Any police station or sheriff's office;
(b) Any detention facility, prison, or jail;
(c) Any courthouse, solely occupied by the Court of Justice courtroom, or court proceeding;
(d) Any meeting of the governing body of a county, municipality, or special district; or any meeting of the General Assembly or a committee of the General Assembly (unless one is a member)
(e) Any portion of an establishment licensed to dispense beer or alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, which portion of the establishment is primarily devoted to that purpose;
(f) Any elementary or secondary school facility without the consent of school authorities as provided in KRS 527.070, any child-caring facility as defined in KRS 199.011, any day-care center as defined in KRS 199.894, or any certified family child-care home as defined in KRS 199.8982, except however, any owner of a certified child-care home may carry a concealed firearm into the owner's residence used as a certified child-care home;
(g) An area of an airport to which access is controlled by the inspection of persons and property; or
(h) Any place where the carrying of firearms is prohibited by federal law.
Furthermore ... regarding the private prohibition of carry. The sign supposedly posted at the BG convention center clearly is unenforceable and may be placed unlawfully (if it states an untruth regarding city ordiances). The Convention Center must be notified that they are in violation of state law, and if there is such a city ordinance, the city must be contacted and notified that they are in violation of state preemption law. If some one were to do this, they should go photograph the sign, photograph the door/entryway, and time-date stamp both photos.
The convention center can, however, post that weapons are prohibited persuant to KRS 237.110. But that regards businesses that prohibit carry ... if one is of the spirit that private property rights trump second amendment rights, then honor the business owner and don't carry there. Otherwise, doing so is not a criminal act (and this is explicitly stated in state law) ... such an owner can only ask you to leave (and only will do so if they notice you carrying ... which if you are concealed, is not an issue). If you THEN refuse to leave the premises ... that is when it becomes a criminal act.